Reporter: What is Chinese medicine beauty?
Director Zhang: TCM cosmetology is a new discipline formed by the combination of aesthetics and TCM. This paper mainly studies the theory, skills and laws of medical body beauty and the direct maintenance, repair, improvement and shaping of human body beauty by using Chinese medicine methods.
Reporter: What scope does Chinese medicine beauty include?
Director Zhang: TCM beauty includes medical beauty and health beauty. At present, the dermatology department of our hospital is carrying out medical cosmetology, which mainly treats diseases that are harmful to beauty, eliminates the appearance defects caused by diseases and maintains the overall beauty of the human body. Cosmetics made of traditional Chinese medicine are used to cover up, eliminate and improve various physiological defects, so as to achieve pleasing beauty effects. At present, the Chinese medicine beauty projects provided by our department are: Chinese medicine whitening, Chinese medicine wrinkle removal, Chinese medicine freckle removal, Chinese medicine anti-allergy, Chinese medicine acne removal and Chinese medicine moisturizing.
Reporter: What is the beauty prospect of Chinese medicine?
Director Zhang: Looking forward to TCM cosmetology is a perfect state of human beauty in form and spirit based on health, which conforms to the historical trend of returning to nature, advocating nature and integrating form and spirit, and TCM cosmetology has more room for development.
Reporter: What is the general situation of the application of cosmetic Chinese medicine in the Chinese medicine code?
Director Zhang: Chinese medicine is one of the earliest and most systematic traditional medicine in the world. China's earliest monograph of traditional Chinese medicine, Shenjia Materia Medica, collected a variety of botanical medicines that can be used for beauty. For example, Alisma orientale is "sweet and cold, long and persistent, long and light, like light, and can swim on water"; Peach blossoms taste bitter and make people look good. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty is a world-famous drug monograph, which contains more than 270 kinds of beauty Chinese medicines. In the Qing Dynasty, the Golden Mirror of Medicine and the Essentials of Surgical Mind recorded many skin beauty methods and drugs for treating dermatoses, such as acne inverted powder and freckle Zheng Rong powder, which greatly promoted the formation and development of TCM cosmetology in later generations.
Reporter: What's the application of cosmetic botanicals in foreign traditional medicine?
Director Zhang: In China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and other Asian countries, people pay great attention to beauty, whitening and freckle removal. Traditional oriental medicine in these countries is based on ancient medicine in China. For example, Yi Xin Fang, compiled by Japanese physician Danbo Kanglai in 982-984 AD, collected more than 200 kinds of prescriptions in China during the Jin and Tang Dynasties, and recorded the application of beauty botanicals. The Medical Prescription Collection compiled by North Korean medical officer Jin Limeng collected 153 kinds of medical books in China before the Ming Dynasty, as well as other non-medical books and documents on beauty, including the application of beauty plants in medical practice. In addition, in the traditional medicine of India, South America and other countries and regions, many plants are also used to treat diseases that damage beauty and maintain health and beauty.
Reporter: What is TCM steam therapy? What are the indications?
Director Zhang: Steam therapy of traditional Chinese medicine, also known as fumigation of traditional Chinese medicine, is an external treatment method that fumigates the human body with steam generated after boiling Chinese herbal medicines, so as to treat diseases or strengthen the body. Traditional Chinese medicine steam therapy can dilate capillaries, promote blood circulation and metabolism, give full play to its efficacy, increase sweat gland excretion, consume redundant nutrients and subcutaneous accumulated fat, and forcefully detoxify the whole body, just like bathing blood vessel cells, completely eliminate fatigue and maintain health. In the enjoyment, it can relieve all kinds of pain and achieve the purpose of body beauty and slimming. Its main indications are eczema, dermatitis, itching, psoriasis, pityriasis rosea, acne, scleroderma, neuralgia after herpes zoster and so on.
Reporter: What is the origin and principle of TCM steam therapy?
Director Zhang: Traditional Chinese medicine steam therapy has a long history. Popular in the court and royal family during the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is used to keep clean, treat diseases and ward off evil spirits, and it is also a courtesy of mutual hospitality. From the Jin and Tang Dynasties to the heyday of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was recorded in the classic Chinese medicine such as Huangdi Neijing and synopsis of the golden chamber. The ancients pointed out from the principle of the unity of external treatment and internal treatment: "the principle of external treatment is the principle of internal treatment, and the medicine of external treatment is the medicine of internal treatment", but the methods (administration routes) adopted are different.
Reporter: What are the main features of TCM steam therapy?
Director Zhang: The main characteristics of TCM steam therapy are: (1) skin administration, which avoids the irritation of drugs to oral mucosa, digestive tract and gastrointestinal tract, reduces the burden on liver and kidney, and thus improves the utilization rate of drugs. (2) Natural medicinal materials are environment-friendly, safe and reliable, which is in line with the development trend of world drug research from chemical synthetic drugs to natural plant drugs. (3) Treatment based on syndrome differentiation has a unique curative effect, which has medical functions that oral drugs can't play, and is especially suitable for people who are too bitter to take medicine.
Reporter: What is Chinese medicine bath? What are the characteristics?
Director Zhang: Medicinal bath is medicinal bath, including whole body medicinal bath and local medicinal bath. It is a traditional treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine and occupies an important position in many treatment methods in the field of dermatology. Traditional Chinese medicine medicated bath is characterized by (1) wide indications and is suitable for eczema, dermatitis, tinea of hands and feet, chapped skin, psoriasis, erythema multiforme and other skin diseases. (2) It is safe and reliable, and has little toxic and side effects. (3) simple and easy to operate.